ANDREW Gregory, 37, of The Cuttings, Hartshorne, was conditionally discharged for six months and told to pay £5.97 compensation, £35 costs and a £15 victim surcharge for stealing two packs of bacon from Tesco on February 16.
GAVIN Alan Keeling, 44, of Hallfieldgate Lane, Shirland, Alfreton, was fined £110, with a £20 victim surcharge, and told to pay £35 costs for driving without due care and attention on October 13. He was disqualified from driving for 12 months.
JAMIE Barton, 28, of Kedleston Close, Long Eaton, was given a 12-month community order with 80 hours of unpaid work and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £60 victim surcharge for breaching a restraining order between December 20 and February 10.
JAMES Marston, 26, of Portland Road, Long Eaton, was given a 12-month community order with 100 hours of unpaid work and told to pay £100 in compensation, £85 court costs and a £60 victim surcharge for assault on March 1.
STUART Greig, 34, of Radford Street, Alvaston, was given a 12-month community order with 140 hours of unpaid work and told to pay £100 compensation, a £60 victim surcharge and £500 costs for assault by beating, driving without a licence and failing to surrender to custody on October 30.
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RARE and unworn 100-year-old football boots, recommended and endorsed by Derby County legend Steve Bloomer and featuring his illustrious name, are set to fetch about £500 at auction.
The size-eight boots, made in or around 1914, feature an image of Bloomer and are embossed with the words: "Steve Bloomer's lucky goalscorer – the boot that never fails to score. Yours truly, Steve Bloomer."
London auctioneer Graham Budd said the boots were never used due to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, immediately after their purchase.
It is thought they were originally owned by a young amateur footballer, who went off to fight in the First World War but never returned.
Bloomer played for the Rams between 1892 and 1906 and again between 1910 and 1914 – scoring 332 goals in 525 appearances.
Middlesbrough signed him in 1906 but he rejoined Derby to a hero's welcome four years later and led the team to promotion from the Second Division in 1912.
The sale of the boots will take place at Graham Budd Auctions, in London, on Thursday, May 22.
AN Etwall animal rescue centre boss has been sentenced after being found guilty of six counts of causing unnecessary suffering to animals.
Lindsay Newell, 27, of Lincoln Road, Burton, faced a total of 31 counts to which she pleaded not guilty. She was cleared of 25 charges.
A judge heard evidence over five days and gave his verdict at Burton Magistrates' Court yesterday.
Newell was given a two-year conditional discharge and must pay £2,000 costs.
She was also banned from keeping sheep, goats, pigs and equines for five years.
District judge David Taylor told her: "I have no doubt that you were strongly motivated by the need to care for animals; I am also under no doubt that you placed yourself under considerable pressures.
"By November 2012 you had simply taken on too much and became unable to identify which animals needed more care."
He said Newell had taken on animals of which she had little or no experience.
"There was a range of animals," he said 'Some of them died. The aggravating feature is that you chose to take these animals on, so you are culpable."
He said that, in giving her evidence, Newell had appeared confident when speaking about four piglets but less confident when asked about the animals that had died. He said: "I conclude that whilst she believed what she was saying was true she could not allow herself to consider the possibility that she has not provided adequate care."
The charges of which she was found guilty were causing unnecessary suffering to a pig called Babe by failing to explore its weight loss. The other five charges were similar but related to a ewe, a lamb, a pony and a goat.
He said that he had no doubt Newell had been strongly motivated by her need to care for the animals but failed to see on some occurrences what should have been obvious to her.
Dingle Clark for the RSPCA said that case has cost £7,000.
Newell still runs the rescue centre in Etwall where there are currently over 300 animals.
Newell's defence solicitor, Nigel Weller, said his client was clearly fulfilling a need in the community and now had six people helping her.
He said: "She is the leading light and has devoted many years of her life to the centre."
Mr Weller said the centre was run on donations.
When passing sentence, Judge Taylor described it as a 'very unusual case.'
A WITNESS has told a court she overheard two murder suspects arguing in a Derby garden about killing father-of-four Barry Smith.
Sahira Azam recorded Nathan Doherty and Emma Aitken as they burned "a large bag" in the garden of communal flats where they lived in Pear Tree.
Miss Azam said she was awoken by the sound of "a loud bang" and looked out of her window to see Doherty and Aitken in the garden and started to film them on her iPhone.
Asked by Michael Auty QC, prosecuting, what woke her in the early hours of October 6, Miss Azam, who gave her evidence from behind screens, replied: "A loud bang."
She added: "It sounded like a gate shutting or some metal of some sort. It was coming from the flats that my house overlooks.
"It was around 4.30am. I got up pretty much straight away and saw people outside arguing and shouting.
"They were in the garden by a tree. I heard the girl calling him Nathan."
Mr Auty asked Miss Azam if she remembered "anything specifically" about what they were arguing about.
Miss Azam replied: "I heard Nathan shouting 'I have killed him, I have killed him'. He was quite hysterical.
"I heard the female say 'it was not just you, it was all three of us, my dad was there too'."
Leicester Crown Court has previously been told by the prosecution that Mr Smith, 48, was beaten to death with pool cues and a fence post, dragged to a pile of rubbish and his body set alight in a "savage and merciless attack" outside Kilburn Welfare Social Club.
Dog walkers discovered his charred remains outside the club at 8am last October 6.
Vincent Aitken, 44, of Chapel Street, Kilburn, his daughter Emma Aitken, 19, and her partner Nathan Doherty, 27, both of Portland Street, Derby, all deny the murder of Mr Smith.
Aitken's wife, Pamela Aitken, 41, also of Chapel Street, denies assisting an offender in relation to Mr Smith's death.
Mr Auty asked Miss Azam if Doherty said anything in response to Miss Aitken, after she said 'it was all three of them'.
She replied: "He was threatening the girl about her dad saying he (Doherty) would kill him (Aitken).
"She was saying how much she cared for and loved her dad – how much she would miss him if he was sent to prison."
Miss Azam said she then filmed footage, which was played to the jury in court, on her phone as Aitken pulled a large bag from behind a shed in the garden of the Portland Street flats which she said Doherty set alight to.
Mr Smith, of Mayfield Avenue, Kilburn, has been described by his family as "a proud gypsy" and had lived in the village for six years.
A post-mortem examination revealed his cause of death as multiple injuries.
Mr Smith was father of daughter Billy-Jo, 23, Barrie-John, 20, Luke, 19, and Nathan, 16. He also had three grandchildren – Josephine-Star, two, Selina-Louise, one, and eight-month-old Arlie-John.
The trial continues.
